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Enhanced Query Analyzer

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Here's a little replacement for Query Analyzer that appears to provide most of the functions, plus a few more. While we haven't given it a full review, at first glance it appears to do the job. Plus there's NO INSTALL!!!! Always a plus for me.

2004-05-07

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Execution Plans

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How many of you use Execution Plans to tune your queries? Do you understand the impact of different indexes? Mr. Vijayakumar looks at his experiments with different types of indexes and their effects on the execution plan use. A great article for those of you that want to learn more about how you can tune your server for better performance.

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2017-02-02 (first published: )

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Performance Monitoring - Basic Counters

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What counters should you monitor to baseline your servers? Which ones for checking performance? It's an interesting question and one that always leads Steve Jones to a wide range of sources in print and on the web. Steve compiled his own list and finally has put some words around the list to give some justification of why they are chosen. Read on and see how this compares to your list (you do have a list don't you?).

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2017-02-02 (first published: )

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Hidden Dangers!

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How many of you register a server in Enterprise Manager? Now how many of you click the "save password" box? Probably most of you. Are you aware of the security risks associated with this? James Travis looks at one of potential problems here and other security issues relating to SQL-DMO.

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2004-05-04

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Auditing Your SQL Server Part 4 - Selective Auditing

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It's been some time and he apologizes. This next part of this series from Steve Jones looks at selective auditing changes to data on the server using a combination of methods presented in previous articles in the series. Read on if you have problems tracking changes to data on some tables, but don't want to implement a solution that tracks every change.

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2004-04-28

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DECLARE @Iteration INT = 0;

WHILE @Iteration < 10
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        CustomerStatus
    FROM dbo.Customer
    WHERE CustomerID > 3;

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